Where and who's wheels are those choices Kevin? The back spacing seems kind of on the large side for a 7" wheel. The 8" even more so. Puts everything inboard. If anything you want a little more outboard offset.
I put these 15 x 7 and 8 x 4.25 BS" Wheel Vintiques on the front and back of the 65. The 7" seem to look and sit pretty much as a factory 15" might. The 8" has a nice dish to them. The 4.25" BS is the optimum with the 8" wide wheel for clearance on the 65 rear. Gives one finger of fender clearance. The 66 should be much the same.
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65 Laurentian post, 67 Grande Parisienne 4 door HT.
If it's any help Kevin the 15 X 6 inch steel rims I'm putting on my 66 now have about 4 1/4" backspace on them. I haven't had the car outside yet since the diff swap to really see how they look but they seem to look as much very much like the stock 14's that were on there.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Where and who's wheels are those choices Kevin? The back spacing seems kind of on the large side for a 7" wheel. The 8" even more so. Puts everything inboard. If anything you want a little more outboard offset.
I put these 15 x 7 and 8 x 4.25 BS" Wheel Vintiques on the front and back of the 65. The 7" seem to look and sit pretty much as a factory 15" might. The 8" has a nice dish to them. The 4.25" BS is the optimum with the 8" wide wheel for clearance on the 65 rear. Gives one finger of fender clearance. The 66 should be much the same.
They are Vintiques wheels. Please dont shoot me but I wanted the factory 1969-70 SS-396 wheel with trim ring and shallow centre cap To go with the white wall tires
Kevin, they will both put the center of the tire in the same spot, just the 8's will stretch the side walls out more, and probably be a little tight to the frame. And in my opinion, a 225 is not enough tire to put on an 8" rim, they don't look right.
Kevin, they will both put the center of the tire in the same spot, just the 8's will stretch the side walls out more, and probably be a little tight to the frame. And in my opinion, a 225 is not enough tire to put on an 8" rim, they don't look right.
yep it was only that the 8" were cheaper that i considered them
Kevin... I tried to put 8" rally wheels all the way around on my 66 Bisc. They hit the front fender when turning the wheels. Front of wheel well curls back towards tire, maybe it doesn't on the Pontiac.
I went 7" rally on the fronts. Can send you pics if you want...
I ran them on a number of my cars way back when. My 396 GP wagon, my 427 automatic 66 Grande Parisienne, my 65 Canso Sport Deluxe to name a few. Those wheels look good on almost anything.